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The Odyssey
Chapters 5-6
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Literature
Undergraduate 1
08/27/2009

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Schaeria
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land of Phaeacians, where Odysseus will escape to with a makeshift raft
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Ino
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saw Odysseus struggling in the sea and called goddess to help him
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Leucothea
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goddess who lives in the sea's salt depths, pitied Odysseus and gave him an immortal scarf to protect him until he reached shore
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Alcinous
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King of Phaeacians
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Nausicaa
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daughter of King of Phaeacians
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shipman Dymas' daughter
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who Athena disguised herself as when she visited the sleeping princess
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palm-tree springling
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what Odysseus compared the princess to
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Ogygia
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the name of Calypso's island
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